Business Of People

(1). Something you can use as an excuse when someone majorly screws up. (see also: Carbon-Based Error)

“Listen Mike, I understand you’re upset, but you have to understand that we’re a business of people. “Sandy deleted the database”, “Sandy cost me tens of thousands of dollars”, tomato tomato…these things happen. Cream? Ok, no cream.”

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RANDOM LINGO

“Look, Jim … sounds like a great idea, but you really need to flesh out these requirements a bit more before we can propose this as a new project. We can’t have our development team doing a lot of mental detective work to try to figure out what you’re driving at.”